Illinois · Nonprofit
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,004,527 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,710,286). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 110
- Grants received
- $23M
- Net assets
- $19M
What People's Resource Center does
Mission
Respond to basic human needs, promote dignity & justice & create a future of hope & opportunity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food pantries - 5,474 families received 53,572 grocery carts filled with a week's worth of nutritious food.
$11,782,320 spentof which $10,002,644 as grants$4,708 earned by the program76% of program spendingHomeless prevention - 311 families received financial assistance to regain housing stability and 651 families received health and welfare assessments and referrals.
$1,125,482 spentof which $827,968 as grants7% of program spendingClothes connection - 3,291 households visited one of our free clothes closets.
$779,608 spentof which $621,101 as grants5% of program spendingComputer access - 478 families received a free refurbished computer for their home.
$432,122 spentof which $315,034 as grants3% of program spendingSocial services - 2,312 families were connected to additional social services including snap (food stamps), emergency financial assistance, utility assistance and health care.
$416,504 spentof which $185,037 as grants3% of program spendingShare the spirit - 674 families received gifts and food certificates to celebrate the holiday season.
$241,939 spentof which $219,985 as grants2% of program spendingArt - 201 adults and 385 children developed their self-esteem and creativity through prc art programs.
$204,699 spentof which $3,016 as grants1% of program spendingAdult learning and literacy - 213 adults registered for literacy services and received 1,727 hours of class instruction and 2,361 hours of 1:1 tutoring.
$200,359 spentof which $8,792 as grants1% of program spendingComputer training - 316 individuals registered for computer training classes.
$186,161 spentof which $6,650 as grants1% of program spendingJob assistance - 105 individuals received guidance from job mentors; 1,099 individuals attend job workshops resulting in 39 job placements.
$119,665 spentof which $517 as grants1% of program spending
The 10 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,488,859.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $18M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 5% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 3% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jenifer Fabian
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 49 funders, grant income rose $2.5M → $3.2M.
20 of 110 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 110 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 66% · 2019 22% · 2020 12% · 2021 51% · 2022 51% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
58% of PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
79% of PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.9M that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER?
- PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER (Illinois) receives grants from 110 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,004,527 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($9,710,286). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 110 organizations giving $23,004,527 in grants to PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER, 73 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $9,710,286 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 110 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing